Towards a Large-Scale 3D Modeling of the Built Environment—Joint Analysis of TanDEM-X, Sentinel-2 and Open Street Map Data

Continental-scale mapping and analysis of 3D building structure

(2020) Mengmeng Li et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Generalised Settlement Area: mapping the Earth surface in the vicinity of built-up areas

(2019) A. J. Florczyk et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Urban expansion and form changes across African cities with a global outlook: Spatiotemporal analysis of urban land densities

(2019) Gang Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Satellite scatterometer estimation of urban built-up volume: Validation with airborne lidar data

(2019) Adam J. Mathews et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Large-Area Characterization of Urban Morphology—Mapping of Built-Up Height and Density Using TanDEM-X and Sentinel-2 Data

(2019) Christian Geis et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

New Perspectives for Mapping Global Population Distribution Using World Settlement Footprint Products

(2019) Daniela Palacios-Lopez et al.   Sustainability

Accuracy assessment of the global TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model with GPS data

(2018) Birgit Wessel et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite

(2018) Miguel O. Román et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Where We Live—A Summary of the Achievements and Planned Evolution of the Global Urban Footprint

(2018) Thomas Esch et al.   Remote Sensing

A Global Geospatial Ecosystem Services Estimate of Urban Agriculture

(2018) Nicholas Clinton et al.   Earths Future

Digital world meets urban planet – new prospects for evidence-based urban studies arising from joint exploitation of big earth data, information technology and shared knowledge

(2018) Thomas Esch et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Horizontal vs vertical growth: Understanding latent patterns of urban expansion in large metropolitan regions

(2018) Ilaria Zambon et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Detecting horizontal and vertical urban growth from medium resolution imagery and its relationships with major socioeconomic factors

(2017) Weixing Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Breaking new ground in mapping human settlements from space – The Global Urban Footprint

(2017) Thomas Esch et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

(2017) Noel Gorelick et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

(2016) Christopher Bren d’Amour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluation of three-dimensional urban expansion: A case study of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China

(2014) Jing Qin et al.   Chinese Geographical Science

TanDEM-X: The New Global DEM Takes Shape

(2014) Manfred Zink et al.   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009

(2013) Steve Frolking et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Urban Footprint Processor—Fully Automated Processing Chain Generating Settlement Masks From Global Data of the TanDEM-X Mission

(2013) T. Esch et al.   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Application of the topographic position index to heterogeneous landscapes

(2012) Jeroen De Reu et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

TanDEM-X Water Indication Mask: Generation and First Evaluation Results

(2012) Anna Wendleder et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Characterization of Land Cover Types in TerraSAR-X Images by Combined Analysis of Speckle Statistics and Intensity Information

(2011) T Esch et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Structural Approach for Building Reconstruction from a Single DSM

(2008) F. Lafarge et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE